too many gay couples
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too many gay couples
i like how Zach portrays normal couple situations using both straight and gay characters but i feel the SMBC population differs significantly from the general population by the number of homosexual people, being skewed towards the gay side. has anyone run any statistical tests on that?
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Re: too many gay couples
Really? This again?
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"Hey guys, I feel uncomfortable seeing all these 'gays', can someone go and run the numbers for me because I'm also incredibly lazy?"
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Re: too many gay couples
Well here's the numbers from the last time it came up a few years ago:
if somebody less lazy than I am would like to compile a new four-month tally, that would be nice.Carcinogeneticist wrote:Just for fun, I went through every comic from the last 4 months and tallied up every depiction/reference to a romantic/sexual partner:
Hetero: 35
Homo: 6
Zombie: 2
Robot: 1
Dinosaur: 1
TOTAL: 45
There were also a handful of relationships left too ambivalent to tally, but as you can see the representation of homosexual couples in SMBC is actually far closer to reality than you claim.
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Re: too many gay couples
And yet replicants remain entirely underrepresented within the SMBC canon
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Re: too many gay couples
SMBC is a comic. Since there are more issues (psych, not political) towards homo- than heterosexuals, it stands to reason they would show up more often in comedy. Honestly, I'd say they are underrepresented.foerno wrote:SMBC population differs significantly from the general population
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Re: too many gay couples
I'm angling for more robot-dinosaur relationships
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Wait. In that whole four month stretch there wasn't a single lizard couple? Zach is slacking.
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Lizardmen are an invisible minority. It is both a weakness (in that they don't show up in comics) and a strength (in that they did 9/11)Kimra wrote:Wait. In that whole four month stretch there wasn't a single lizard couple? Zach is slacking.
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Just because they did 9/11 doesn't mean they shouldn't get representation. #notalllizardmenDonRetrasado wrote:Lizardmen are an invisible minority. It is both a weakness (in that they don't show up in comics) and a strength (in that they did 9/11)
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Re: too many gay couples
Why are you all spreading anti-lizardmen propaganda? Bush did 9/11 and he is not a lizardman.
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Re: too many gay couples
OK but what do you say to this indisputable proof that I found on non-partisan news site google images:
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Re: too many gay couples
Dude everyone knows Google is owned by owned by Alphabet, which is owned by Larry Page, who I've heard once shook hands with "Shillary" Clinton. It's obviously biased.
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Re: too many gay couples
Shillary ain't exactly invisible.DonRetrasado wrote: Lizardmen are an invisible minority. It is both a weakness (in that they don't show up in comics) and a strength (in that they did 9/11)
Re: too many gay couples
Ok, I was curious so I looked at comics from the last 5 months. This was counting people in relationships, or where there was a clear romantic/sexual attraction, where both were depicted in the comic.
Hetero: 10
Homo: 4
That's more than 25% of all relationships depicted as being homosexual, though this is a very small sample. One thing to note though is that all the homosexual relationships were between two males, and 3 of the 4 depicted them having sex. To me it seems that homosexual relationships receive different treatment to heterosexual relationships in this comic.
Hetero: 10
Homo: 4
That's more than 25% of all relationships depicted as being homosexual, though this is a very small sample. One thing to note though is that all the homosexual relationships were between two males, and 3 of the 4 depicted them having sex. To me it seems that homosexual relationships receive different treatment to heterosexual relationships in this comic.